Word: mausoleum
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Just behind the tomb are the bodies of the Soviet "apostles" including two from the U. S.: John Reed of Harvard, Big Bill Haywood of Chicago. To correspondents, Architect A. G. Schuse explained his design: "For five years we have waited for a perfect design for Lenin's mausoleum but none has been forthcoming. All that time I have worked to improve the original design. ... I made hundreds of' sketches, plans and colored drawings showing how the tombs would harmonize with the ancient kremlin wall behind it in color, shape and line until the Central Committee finally...
...Tiffany Favrile Glass. His first U. S. exhibit, "A Dock Scene, Yonkers," was in the National Academy of 1869. He became (and remains) Vice President and Art Director of Tiffany & Co., jewelers. He is president and founder of Tiffany Furnaces and Tiffany Studios, which have filled many a church, mausoleum, library, with windows artfully simulating oil paintings. He is one of the most revered patrons of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose President Robert Weeks De Forest is his great & good friend...